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Duke won several awards such as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Their are many others but it would be to many to announce since Duke Ellington was such a great man!!!!!!
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∙ 13y agoHe won several awards including:
-The Presidential Medal of Freedom (by Richard Nixon in 1969)
-Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (in 1966)
-PhD from Berkeley for outstanding musicianship (in 1971)
Most of his awards were issued to him in the time period of 1965 till his death in 1974. He also wrote over 2,000 compositions in his lifetime in 1899 through 1974.
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∙ 14y agoplay the piano when he was a child and went to school for his music
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